Meteorology
Links
Weather Web Sites
LCHS Weather Station: Go here for the current weather and climate statistics at the high school!
DataStreme Atmosphere: This is the online course that Mr. Traeger is taking during the Spring Semester of 2008. Follow along if you like!
National Weather Service Forecast Office, Los Angeles: This is the page that I refer to most often in class concerning our local weather.
National Weather Service: Excellent weather site for national weather!
CNN Weather News: Go here for the latest news and weather related disasters.
The Weather Channel: Excellent weather site with plenty of current national and worldwide weather.
National Hurricane Center: This is one of the most used web sites during hurricane season from June to November!
Online Tornado FAQ: Want to know about tornadoes??? Go here!
Careers in Weather: Want to become a meteorologist??? If so, then go here!
The California Regional Weather Server: This site has many useful weather products, such as satellite images and jet stream maps.
Atmospheric Optics: Some of the most beautiful light shows are in the sky, if you only will look up!
Rings around the Sun: A great story from NASA on atmospheric optics.
South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD): Go here to find out if it is healthy to go outside today.
Environmental
Protection Agency Air Quality: Go here for air quality data throughout the
All About Snow: Go here to learn more about that stuff you’re snowboarding on!
Western Regional Climate Center: Precipitation Maps and lots of other climate information!
National Water and Climate Center: Water Maps in Google Earth!
DISCOVER:
Meteorology Web Quest
Go here to
find the latest weather forecast for United States Cities
For a graphic of the water cycle, go here
Is there really a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? Go here to find out!
To learn all about the Earth's atmosphere, go here!
For lightning and thunder, go here.
Here are some safety tips when you get caught in a thunderstorm.
Go here to learn about all of the cloud types.
What was the fastest wind speed ever recorded? Go here to find out!
How do hurricanes form? You will find out here.
Go here to find out about weather fronts.
The Fujita Intensity Scale for tornadoes is here.
Is it a hurricane, cyclone, or typhoon? Go here to find out.
For Atlantic hurricane names, go here.
Here is the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Intensity Scale.
The National Weather Service, Los Angeles.
For weather forecast prognostic charts, go here.
Weather map symbols can be found here.
Satellite Images
GOES West visible image.
GOES West infrared image.
Here is a jet stream analysis chart
Go here for a radar image of precipitation intensity
The Aviation Weather Center for pilots
For
a weather crossword puzzle, go here.
